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How do I create a mailing list with a non-standard name?
John Reekie, 28 Oct 1999
To have a mailing list created with a non-standard
name, send email to
webmaster at gigascale dot org
with the name of your mailing list.
The list name, if it contains a dash, must end in -cvs, -interest, or
-announce. It appears that names like foo-bar-announce do
not work, so use foobar-announce.
The webmaster will
- Become root on gigascale and do
cd ~mailman
bin/newlist mailing-list-name email-address-of-owner password
For example
bin/newlist gsrcworkshop-announce www@gigascale.org foobar
- Take the output and place it at the end of
/etc/aliases and run newaliases
- Go to http://www.gigascale.org/mailman/admin/listname
- Edit
Base URL for Mailman web interface (Details)
and change it to
http://www.gigascale.org/mailman
The text below here documents a not yet implemented feature
You can create a mailing list with a non-standard
name. To do this, use the admin page of the relevant
group, and follow the "New list" link in the
left hand margin. In the bottom section
of the page, there is a form that enables you
to request a non-standard or "custom" mailing list.
Warning: a custom list must be
entirely configured by you, the server will
not give you any help. If you do not believe
you can handle hand-configuring a mailing list,
do not use this option.
When you submit the request, email will be sent
to webmaster at gigascale dot org with your request. When
the webmaster has created and enabled your list,
you will be able to configure the list. We suggest
you look at a standard list to get a feel for
what the configuration should look like. In particular:
- On the general options page, the hostname and
base URL of the list will be wrong by default. Set
these to
gigascale.org and
http://www.gigascale.org/groupname/
respectively.
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